The proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner for $85 billion comes amid news that AT&T built a powerful phone surveillance tool for police, called Hemisphere. Every day AT&T addsfour billion call records to Hemisphere. "We view this as a menace to our privacy," said EFF Senior Staff...

The proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner for $85 billion comes amid news that AT&T built a powerful phone surveillance tool for police, called Hemisphere. Every day AT&T addsfour billion call records to Hemisphere. "We view this as a menace to our privacy," said EFF Senior Staff...

The proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner for $85 billion comes amid news that AT&T built a powerful phone surveillance tool for police, called Hemisphere. Every day AT&T addsfour billion call records to Hemisphere. "We view this as a menace to our privacy," said EFF Senior Staff...

The proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner for $85 billion comes amid news that AT&T built a powerful phone surveillance tool for police, called Hemisphere. Every day AT&T addsfour billion call records to Hemisphere. "We view this as a menace to our privacy," said EFF Senior Staff...

Schwartz told The Daily Beast. “I’ve seen documents produced by the government regarding Hemisphere, but this is the first time I’ve seen an AT&T document which requires parallel construction in a service to government. It’s very troubling and not the way law enforcement should work in this country.”